Big City Secrets
Big City Secrets is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
- Joseph Arthur – guitar, vocals, harmonica, highly-strung bass, paintings, drawings
- Roger Beaujolais – vibes, Venetian xylophone
- Martyn Barker – treated tubular kit, drums, caxixi, bondage snare, live drums, scaffolphoneum, berimbau, cow gong, percussion
- Simon Edwards – bass, piano, bass performance & arrangement, coal bass, additional guitar, string fossil bass, maze bass, sas, berimbau, mellotron, Persian fretless, filter bass, harmonic missiles
- Markus Dravs – keyboard, desert storm & gravel percussion, corn horn, drum programming, lesley accordion, low drum & sheet percussion, production, mixing
- Brian Eno – backing vocals
- Peter Gabriel – backing vocals
- Nigel Eaton – hurdy gurdy
- Ashley Slater – trombone
- Ron Aslan – drum loop
- Nick Plytas – mellotron
Technical personnel
- Ben Findlay – engineering, editing, mixing
- Ruadhri Cushnan – additional engineering
- Ray Martin – additional engineering
- Goetz Botzenhardt – additional engineering
- Ibi Tjani – additional engineering
- Jacquie Turner – additional engineering
- Nick Kirkland – additional engineering
- Justin Griffith – assistant engineering
- Lee Phillips – assistant engineering
- Lee Fitzgerald – assistant engineering
- Mark Aubury – assistant engineering
- Crispin Murray – additional editing
- Paul Morris – additional editing
- Tristan Manco – graphic design
- Derek Edwards – 2012 Real World Gold reissue repackaged album design
- Michele Turriani – front cover and right hand inside panel background photography
- Anna Gabriel – CD face and inside left hand panel background photography